Right and wrong
I hate America's highway system. Actually, that's a lie, but yesterday I came pretty darn close to hating it. Why? Because Nick and I got lost. Not just lost even; really, really lost. Like, we-went-an-hour-in-the-wrong-direction lost. Rawr.
I learned a lesson yesterday though... there are two 101 South's, and only one of them is the right 101 South. What the frosty (close one, eh mom?) you say? Enlighten us, Google Maps:
Note the 101 on the right and the 101 on the left of the map. Also note the 101 going across the top.
Well, says you, it is the loop 101, isn't it? Yes, yes it is. But for those of us who are/were unenlightened to the fact that whether you go East or West on the 101 you end up headed down the 101 South, it gets very confusing. Suffice it to say that, for whatever reason, we ended up going West on the 101 (we were up the top of the above map, between the 51 and the 17, North of the 101), because it seemed like the right way to go (don't ask). We had taken the 202 to the 101 North, so the East and West didn't really make sense. But we ended up going West anyways. 20 minutes later, after realizing that In-and-Out doesn't open until 10:30 (we arrived at about 10:05, figuring it opened at 10), we hit the 101 South. "Finally", we thought... "I don't remember it taking this long to get here." Next thing we knew, we were in Peoria, more lost than we had initially thought.
Had we known our way around Phoenix, we could have taken the 60 to the 10 to the 202 and saved ourselves from being completely lost. But of course, neither of us knew this. So, we turned around and went all the way back around the 101 to the right 101 South, stopping at another In-and-Out on the way back around, which was now open because it was past 11 at that point.
So, the trip back took us a good 2 hours instead of the 30 minutes it should have taken, but oh well. We lived. And it was fun... yelling at Nick's siblings in the back, among other things.
Whatever the case, just learn from our mistake. There's a right 101 South, and a wrong 101 South. Just make sure you take the right one. It'll save you a long, boring drive to Glendale/Peoria.
I have more to write, but I am now bent on making a perl script to grab the latest nightly build of WebKit+SVG from the nightly WebKit page. Church starts soon too, so I should probably leave Java Hell and head that way...
I learned a lesson yesterday though... there are two 101 South's, and only one of them is the right 101 South. What the frosty (close one, eh mom?) you say? Enlighten us, Google Maps:
Note the 101 on the right and the 101 on the left of the map. Also note the 101 going across the top.
Well, says you, it is the loop 101, isn't it? Yes, yes it is. But for those of us who are/were unenlightened to the fact that whether you go East or West on the 101 you end up headed down the 101 South, it gets very confusing. Suffice it to say that, for whatever reason, we ended up going West on the 101 (we were up the top of the above map, between the 51 and the 17, North of the 101), because it seemed like the right way to go (don't ask). We had taken the 202 to the 101 North, so the East and West didn't really make sense. But we ended up going West anyways. 20 minutes later, after realizing that In-and-Out doesn't open until 10:30 (we arrived at about 10:05, figuring it opened at 10), we hit the 101 South. "Finally", we thought... "I don't remember it taking this long to get here." Next thing we knew, we were in Peoria, more lost than we had initially thought.
Had we known our way around Phoenix, we could have taken the 60 to the 10 to the 202 and saved ourselves from being completely lost. But of course, neither of us knew this. So, we turned around and went all the way back around the 101 to the right 101 South, stopping at another In-and-Out on the way back around, which was now open because it was past 11 at that point.
So, the trip back took us a good 2 hours instead of the 30 minutes it should have taken, but oh well. We lived. And it was fun... yelling at Nick's siblings in the back, among other things.
Whatever the case, just learn from our mistake. There's a right 101 South, and a wrong 101 South. Just make sure you take the right one. It'll save you a long, boring drive to Glendale/Peoria.
I have more to write, but I am now bent on making a perl script to grab the latest nightly build of WebKit+SVG from the nightly WebKit page. Church starts soon too, so I should probably leave Java Hell and head that way...